Mine seem to find seeing (or more commonly hearing) other dogs on television intriguing, but not necessarily relaxing. Then again they’re very inconsistent. A cat meowing might elicit pricked ears, an elephant moving around might prompt one to get up and sniff the TV screen, but these reactions can’t be reproduced and seem almost random.

I can’t speak for dogs generally but what mine seem to find most relaxing is running around the backyard then curling up on the couch.

That same free weekend we flipped it over. There was a background scene with a dog-shaped hole in it that had another scene, some trippy trance music and the color palette was shifting over time with the music. I really felt like I’d dropped something for a minute there, and I could only imagine what it’d do to our poor eight month old puppy.

Then again, she’s usually acting like she’s on a bad acid trip when she’s not sleeping, so…